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February 2, 1990 - Óscar García

Óscar García Guzmán (born 1990), known as The Monster of Toluca, is a Mexican serial killer. He was first identified as a suspect in the disappearance of a fellow Technological University of Mexico (UNITEC) student on October 30, 2019, when, after searching his home in Villa Santin, Toluca, State of Mexico, police officers found the strangled bodies of three women, two of which were buried in his backyard and the other was hidden in his bathroom.

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February 2, 1956 - Adnan Oktar

Adnan Oktar (Turkish pronunciation: [ɑdˈnan ɔkˈtaɾ]; born 2 February 1956), also known as Adnan Hoca or Harun Yahya, is a Turkish Muslim Quranist televangelist, Islamic creationist, author, and religious leader. His organization is commonly referred to as a cult, and he has been described as a cult leader.

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February 2, 1933 - Than Shwe

Than Shwe (Burmese: သန်းရွှေ; pronounced [θáɰ̃ ʃwè]; born 2 February 1933) is a retired Burmese military officer who ruled Myanmar as the second chairman of the State Peace, and Development Council as well as the commander-in-chief of Defence Services from 1992 until his resignation in 2011, and concurrently served as the eighth prime minister of Myanmar from 1992 to 2003. He previously served as the deputy commander-in-chief of Defence Services from 1985, and the vice chairman of the State Peace and Development Council, and deputy prime minister of Myanmar from 1988 until 1992.

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February 3, 1943 - Juan José Esparragoza Moreno

Juan José Esparragoza Moreno (born February 3, 1949, possibly died June 2014), commonly referred to by his alias El Azul (English: "The Blue One"), was a Mexican drug lord and co-founder of the Sinaloa Cartel, a drug trafficking organization. Originally a member of the Dirección Federal de Seguridad (DFS) police agency, he founded the Guadalajara Cartel in the 1970s along with other drug kingpins in Mexico.

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February 3, 1901 - Fulgencio Batista

Fulgencio Batista y Zaldívar (born Rubén Zaldívar; January 16, 1901 – August 6, 1973) was a Cuban military officer, political leader, and dictator who played a dominant role in Cuban politics from his initial rise to power in the 1930s until his overthrow in the Cuban Revolution in 1959. He served as president of Cuba from 1940 to 1944, and again from 1952 to his 1959 resignation.

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February 4, 1952 - Thomas Silverstein

Thomas Edward Silverstein (born Thomas Edward Conway; February 4, 1952 – May 11, 2019) was an American criminal who spent the last 42 years of his life in prison after being convicted of three separate murders, with a fourth murder conviction being overturned and Silverstein being implicated in a fifth, while imprisoned for armed robbery. Silverstein spent the last 36 years of his life in solitary confinement for killing corrections officer Merle Clutts at the Marion Penitentiary in Illinois.

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February 4, 1876 - Ma Fuxiang

Ma Fuxiang (traditional Chinese: 馬福祥; simplified Chinese: 马福祥; pinyin: Mǎ Fúxiáng; Wade–Giles: Ma Fu-hsiang, Xiao'erjing: مَا فُ‌ثِیَانْ, French romanization: Ma-Fou-hiang or Ma Fou-siang; 4 February 1876 – 19 August 1932) was a Chinese Muslim scholar, military officer and politician, spanning from the Qing Dynasty through the early Republic of China. His positions illustrated the power of family, the role of religious affiliations and the interaction of Inner Asian China and the national government of China.

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February 4, 1950 - Vladimir Retunsky

Vladimir Nikolaevich Retunsky (Russian: Влади́мир Никола́евич Рету́нский; born 4 February 1950), known as The Povorino Maniac (Russian: Поворинский маньяк), is a Soviet–Russian serial killer and rapist who raped and murdered at least 8 young women in Voronezh and Vologda Oblasts between 1990 and 1996. He had previous convictions for rape and negligent homicide.

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February 4, 1946 - Yves Trudeau

Yves Trudeau (4 February 1946 – July 2008), also known as Apache and The Mad Bomber, was a Canadian outlaw biker, gangster, contract killer, rapist, child molester, and serial killer. A former member of the North chapter of Hells Angels in Laval, Trudeau was the club's leading assassin and a major participant in multiple biker conflicts throughout Canadian history, including the Popeyes–Devils Disciples War, the Satan's Choice–Popeyes War and the First Biker War.

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February 4, 1949 - Thaksin Shinawatra

Thaksin Shinawatra (Thai: ทักษิณ ชินวัตร, RTGS: Thaksin Chinnawat [tʰák.sǐn tɕʰīn.nā.wát] ; born 26 July 1949) is a Thai former politician, businessman, and police officer who served as the 23rd prime minister of Thailand from 2001 until his overthrow in 2006. Since 2009 he has also been a citizen of Montenegro.

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February 5, 1981 - Luke Woodham

The 1997 Pearl High School shooting occurred on October 1, 1997, at Pearl High School in Pearl, Mississippi, United States. The gunman, 16-year-old 11th grade student Luke Woodham (born February 5, 1981), shot and killed two students and injured seven others at the school after killing his mother by bludgeoning and stabbing at their home earlier that morning.

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February 5, 1897 - Miyuki Ishikawa

Miyuki Ishikawa (石川 ミユキ, Ishikawa Miyuki; 5 February 1897 – 30 May 1987) was a Japanese midwife, real estate agent and serial killer. During the US occupation of Japan, she and several accomplices are believed to have murdered dozens of infants, a crime spree known as the Kotobuki San'in incident.

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February 5, 1935 - Adnan Khashoggi

Adnan Khashoggi (Arabic: عدنان خاشقجي, romanized: ‘Adnān Khāshuqjī; 25 July 1935 – 6 June 2017) was a Saudi businessman and arms dealer known for his business dealings, extensive geopolitical influence, and opulent lifestyle, which earned him the moniker "The Great Gatsby of the Middle East." During his peak in the early 1980s, Khashoggi's net worth was estimated at around $4 billion, amassed through his pivotal role as an intermediary between Western defense companies and the Saudi government.

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February 6, 1979 - Mikhail Neznamov

Mikhail Aleksandrovich Neznamov (Russian: Михаил Александрович Незнамов; born 6 February 1979), known as The Kamensk Strangler (Russian: Каменский душитель), is a Russian serial killer who murdered at least five teenage girls and women in Kamensk-Uralsky, Sverdlovsk Oblast from 2000 to 2005. He remained undetected until 2023 when he was arrested and subsequently confessed to the crimes.

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February 6, 1970 - Zhou Kehua

Zhou Kehua (simplified Chinese: 周克华; traditional Chinese: 周克華; pinyin: Zhōu Kèhuá; 6 February 1970 – 14 August 2012) was a Chinese arms trafficker and suspected serial killer, believed to be responsible for the Su-Xiang-Yu serial murders (Chinese: 苏湘渝系列持枪杀人抢劫案; lit. 'Jiangsu-Hunan-Chongqing series of murders and armed robberies').

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February 6, 1826 - Nathaniel Gordon

Nathaniel Gordon (February 6, 1826 – February 21, 1862) was an American slave trader who was the only person in the United States to be tried, convicted, and executed by the federal government for having "engaged in the slave trade", which was deemed an act of piracy when committed by American citizens under the Piracy Law of 1820. As such, Gordon was also the last person to be executed for piracy in the United States.

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February 6, 1897 - Louis Buchalter

Louis Buchalter, known as Louis Lepke, Lepke Buchalter or Judge Louie, (February 6, 1897 – March 4, 1944), was a Jewish-American organized crime figure and head of the Mafia hit squad Murder, Inc., during the 1930s. Buchalter was one of the premier labor union racketeers in New York City during that era.

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February 6, 1966 - Servando Gómez Martínez

Servando Gómez Martínez (born February 6, 1966), commonly referred to by his alias La Tuta (The Teacher) for once being a teacher, is a Mexican drug lord and former leader of the Knights Templar Cartel, a criminal organization based in the state of Michoacán. He is a former leader and founder member of La Familia Michoacana drug cartel, the split-off group of the Knights Templar.

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February 7, 1932 - Frank Schweihs

Francis John Schweihs (February 7, 1932 – July 23, 2008), aka "Frank the German", was an American gangster, who worked for The Outfit, the organized crime family of Chicago. At the time of his death, federal prosecutors planned to indict him for numerous crimes, including murder.

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February 7, 1913 - Ramón Mercader

Jaume Ramón Mercader del Río (Catalan pronunciation: [rəˈmom məɾkəˈðe]; 7 February 1913 – 18 October 1978) was a Spanish communist and NKVD secret agent who assassinated the revolutionary Leon Trotsky in Mexico City in August 1940 with an ice axe, for which Mercader was imprisoned for 19 years and 8 months.

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February 7, 1884 - Hachirō Arita

Hachirō Arita (有田 八郎, Arita Hachirō; 21 September 1884 – 4 March 1965) was a Japanese politician and diplomat who served as the Minister for Foreign Affairs for three terms. He coined the term Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere, which provided an official agenda for Imperial Japan's expansionism.

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February 9, 1822 - Francis Cadell

Francis William Cadell (9 February 1822 – 1879) was a Scottish explorer of Australia, mostly remembered for opening the Murray River up for transport by steamship and for his activities as a blackbirder, where he systematically kidnapped Indigenous people to work as slaves on his pearling and trepanging interests in northern Australia.

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